12-2-14. Job 39:1-18. Trust God, The Creator And The Manager Of Creation-my devotional
Trust God, The Creator And The Manager Of Creation. Kevin E. Jesmer. 12-2-14
Job 39:1, “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?”
In Job 39:1-18, God asked Job several questions about the animal kingdom in order to demonstrate how limited Job’s knowledge about God and his creation really was. It was also to help Job and his friends understand how limited they are to not only understand, but also to control things.
Let’s think about God and his greatness. God provides food for the animals. He designed and watches over the marvelous ways of the goat, the donkey, the wild ox, the ostrich. There is something in common with the animals in the first part. They are all hard for people to control and domesticate. Concerning the donkey, “It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout.” (7) Nothing can the wild donkey to submit to domestication. “Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger at night?” (9). The wild ox does not submit easily. It can not be contained to do work in the fields. “Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you?” (10) You can’t trust it to complete the work you have given it to do. “Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?” (12) In other words, it can’t be domesticated. The ostrich can just run away, and never submit to any man. “Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.” (18). People are helpless to control these animals. But God controls them. God takes care of them. He sets the boundaries in which these animals willingly operate within and thrive. For God, this is no problem. But for people, it is pipe dream to domesticate some of these animals.
God asks Job to do a better job if he can. God is the all knowing Creator. He understands and manages all of creation. Job can just hang in there and survive and ask himself “Why?” The fact is, no human being can do a better job than God can do. He is the Creator. He is the ultimate engineer and manager. He is the provider. We can trust to God to control things in life we are not in control of. God can manage things according to his will.
We need to trust the Lord. There is so much in our lives that are outside of our control. Job felt that his world was spinning out of control. He was on death’s doorstep. But God, who manages wild animals, who created their world and ours, can manage it all according to this will. Have faith in God. Mark 11:22-23 reads, “And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. 23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.” May God help us all have faith in the creator and the manager of this world and, more importantly, our lives.
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